[Ann Drysdale]

The Jack of Clubs

[Gail White]

Originally Posted by Roger Slater

"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" is a cheat, since you didn't use titles for anyone else. If you left it out, would the poem still make sense?

Actually, I note titles used for Dame Margot Fonteyn and Lady Jane Grey.

What about another list for the modest writers who use only their initials? C.S. Lewis, W.H. Auden, A.E. Stallings et al.

[Ann Drysdale]

Lady Jane Grey wasn't in the original list that RogerBob commented on, though, Gail. Incidentally, do you have any ideas as to what Sir Spring-heel Jack is up to here? (boing boing boing...)

[Jack Land]

F. Lee Bailey
C. Wright Mills
L. Frank Baum
E. Howard Hunt
G. Gordon Liddy
H. Rider Haggard
N. Scott Momaday
J. William Fulbright
O. My Sainted Aunt!
R. Buckminster Fuller
T. Coraghessan Boyle
W. Somerset Maugham

[Ann Drysdale]

U. Take The Fifth?

[Jack Land]

Wasteheads weirdomorphs wrongdoers and lone wolves

Hippies groupies Deadheads and freaks dangling in trees

Dilettantes mountebanks charlatans and armchair experts

Misanthropes troglodytes tortfeasors and paranoid isolatos

Adventurers pathfinders survivalists and assorted passersby

Protagonists existentialists ideologues and dramatis personæ

Necromancers poltergeists clairvoyants and pseudointellectuals

Minnesingers costermongers poetasters and wandering minstrels

Nativists populists tribalists pocketing the Viking Portable Nietzsche

Anarchists iconoclasts hedonists and infantile deviationists to the left

Non-student agitators and radical feminist multicultural deconstructionists

[Jim Moonan]

Originally Posted by Jack Land

Wasteheads weirdomorphs wrongdoers and lone wolves

Hippies groupies Deadheads and freaks dangling in trees

Dilettantes mountebanks charlatans and armchair experts

Misanthropes troglodytes tortfeasors and paranoid isolatos

Adventurers pathfinders survivalists and assorted passersby

Protagonists existentialists ideologues and dramatis personæ

Necromancers poltergeists clairvoyants and pseudointellectuals

Minnesingers costermongers poetasters and wandering minstrels

Nativists populists tribalists pocketing the Viking Portable Nietzsche

Anarchists iconoclasts hedonists and infantile deviationists to the left

Non-student agitators and radical feminist multicultural deconstructionists

Now we're getting somewhere!


To that let me add:

Chain-smoking whiskey drinking blue eyed peaky wearing war torn son of gypsy death



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[Jack Land]

J. Paul Getty
J. Edgar Hoover
J. Alfred Prufrock
J. William Fulbright
J. Robbie Robertson
J. Ramsay MacDonald
J. Robert Oppenheimer

[Roger Slater]

J Paul Getty

[Joe Crocker]

J Arthur Rank

and perhaps Betjeman's
Miss J Hunter Dunn